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P&W Installs First JT8D QuietEagle System

Pratt & Whitney has installed the first JT8D-200 series QuietEagle noise reduction system on a VIP McDonnell Douglas MD-87.
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Rafale comes battle hardened

In the fighter aircraft business, there’s no substitute for combat experience, if you want to impress potential customers.
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Israelis launch spy satellite

Israel launched another reconnaissance satellite last week as military tensions increase in the Middle East.
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New turkish trainer

Turkey’s indigenous primary/basic trainer program now has a name–Huˇrkus¸.
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Embraer increases production

Embraer is here at Le Bourget exhibiting a 170/175 regional airliner, its super-midsize Legacy 600 executive jet and scale models of its new four-seat Phen
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Viking cuts metal on its Twin Otter

Some two months after announcing the relaunch of 19-seat Twin Otter production, Canada’s Viking Aerospace has begun cutting metal on the first unit at its
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GECAS president spurns non-GE-engined products

 Aircraft leasing company General Electric Commercial Aviation Services (GECAS) has converted options held on six GE90-110B1L-powered Boeing 777F carg
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ITT burnishing reputation in electronic jamming

ITT, for many years a key player in the electronic warfare (EW) sector, continues to reinforce its position by continual developments.
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Thales upgrades combat aircraft

As well as providing the avionics equipment for France’s high-profile Rafale program, Thales is active in the fighter upgrade business.
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MBDA tests Meteor on multiple airframes

MBDA, the missile manufacturer owned by BAE Systems, EADS and Finmeccanica, has appointed Antoine Bouvier as its new chief executive.
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Boeing Half Way with 777F Design Definition

Boeing has released half of the defined design for the 777F cargo aircraft to its factories and suppliers to begin manufacture of tools, parts and assembli
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Lufthansa To Upgrade A300-600 FMS

CMC Electronics has signed a contract with Lufthansa for cockpit upgrades to the CMA-9000 flight management system in the German air carrier’s fleet of 14
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Rolls gets on the sales power curve

Rolls-Royce is celebrating its biggest ever civil engines order, a $5.6 billion deal for Trent XWBs to power Qatar Airways’ 80 Airbus A350 XWBs, and it is
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All-modern MiG fighter could pack even more punch

The MiG-29M flying here with its Klimov RD-33 OVT thrust vectoring engines is a testbed for the technology, which is available as an option on the company’
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Volga-Dnepr signs for upgraded Il-76

Volga-Dnepr (Hall 4 Stand E16) and Ilyushin Interstate Aviation signed a general agreement here Monday for three firm orders and 10 options for IL-76TD-90V
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Lion Air Is THE Customer for Earlier 737-900 order

Jakarta-based Lion Air is the previously unnamed customer for a listed order for 40 Boeing 737-900ER airliners–nominally valued at more than $3 billion–tha
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P&W, Honeywell team on engine for Army helos

Pratt & Whitney and Honeywell announced yesterday here at Le Bourget that they have agreed to work together to develop a new, 3,000-shp turboshaft engine f
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Boeing: one engine will cut costs on new 747-8

A 16-percent operating cost improvement sounds like a formidable hurdle for any aircraft program, but even more so for one at its outset seen as a low-risk
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JCA win boosts C-27J team’s fortunes

The L-3 Communications Integrated Systems-led C-27J team, including partners Alenia Aeronautica, GMAS (a joint L-3/Alenia company) and Boeing Integrated De
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Embraer studies medium-size military airlifter

Embraer, the world’s fourth-ranking aircraft maker, which started largely as a defense company, is seeking to enhance its defense business by studying the
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EADS elbows into tanker fray

EADS Military Transport Aircraft (MTA) has set its sights on half of the aerial-refueling-tanker market estimated at 600 aircraft for 30 countries over the
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French Tigers to get Hellfire II

France is buying the Lockheed Martin Hellfire II missile system to give its 40 Tiger HAD (Hélicoptère d’Appui Destruction) helicopters a versatile precisio
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Airbus offers frax ownership of A400M airlifter to NATO

Airbus Military is offering to supply some A400M tactical airlifters to NATO on a “fractional ownership” basis.
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Irkut sends first two Flankers to Malaysia

The Irkut aviation plant on Sunday delivered the first two Su-30MKM multirole fighters to Malaysia, where they will be reassembled.
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Dassault picks Rolls-Royce to power new bizjet

Rolls-Royce is the surprise winner of the all-out competition to power Dassault’s projected super-midsize business jet, securing the UK company’s long-term
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EADS eager to enter the space tourism market

EADS Astrium’s plans to move into the space tourism market, revealed last week to a VIP audience and represented here by a full-scale mockup of a hybrid sp
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GE and Smiths already in sync

Barely a month has passed since what formerly traded as Smiths Aerospace formally became General Electric Aviation Systems at the closing of the U.S.